VMware ESX hosts also use different create and extent types for flat files, respectively "vmfs" and "VMFS". This is not documented, but it can be found at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/10002511 (Recreating a missing virtual machine disk (VMDK) descriptor file).
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> --- block/vmdk.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/vmdk.c b/block/vmdk.c index eaf484a..2a5b63d 100644 --- a/block/vmdk.c +++ b/block/vmdk.c @@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ static int vmdk_parse_extents(const char *desc, BlockDriverState *bs, if (sectors <= 0 || (strcmp(type, "FLAT") && strcmp(type, "SPARSE") && - strcmp(type, "VMFSSPARSE")) || + strcmp(type, "VMFS") && strcmp(type, "VMFSSPARSE")) || (strcmp(access, "RW"))) { goto next_line; } @@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ static int vmdk_parse_extents(const char *desc, BlockDriverState *bs, } /* save to extents array */ - if (!strcmp(type, "FLAT")) { + if (!strcmp(type, "FLAT") || !strcmp(type, "VMFS")) { /* FLAT extent */ VmdkExtent *extent; @@ -829,6 +829,7 @@ static int vmdk_open_desc_file(BlockDriverState *bs, int flags, goto exit; } if (strcmp(ct, "monolithicFlat") && + strcmp(ct, "vmfs") && strcmp(ct, "vmfsSparse") && strcmp(ct, "twoGbMaxExtentSparse") && strcmp(ct, "twoGbMaxExtentFlat")) { -- 1.8.3.1